Public Health PLUS

It appears that the ADA violations on the access ramp to the polling place for Ward 7 in the Town Hall of Records building have been removed from see,click,fix.

Please explain.

This is the northeast corner of the New Haven Green, 1/2 block north of New Haven City Hall. What the ADA defines as a trip hazard is, in fact a trip hazard. The vertical level change at this curb ramp is about twice what it allowed. It is noteworthy that this is on the path of travel from public transportation stops to the Courthouse across the street.

Brick sidewalk in disrepair

Hillhouse High School. As you can see from colors of the sidewalk, the City of New Haven violated 28 CFR 35.151 "The obligation to provide an accessible path of travel may not be evaded by performing a series of small alterations to the area served by a single path of travel if those alterations could have been performed as a single undertaking." by repairing small sections of this path of travel near a Public School.

The city is ostensibly engaged in the The Safe Routes to School program. which "seeks to create a 'safety trail' within a 1/4-mile corridor of each public school in the City." Photos of the 'Safety Trail left behind by the failure to comply with Federal law follow.

This was reported in August of 2019 and has been ignored since. Federal law requires that New Haven Academy be accessible by at least one accessible parking space.. All three reserved parking spaces across the street from this Public School have had ADA violations at them for many years.

The ADA does not specifically require that parking spaces that are reserved for people with disabilities be accessible to the people for whom they are reserved. It assumes that a basic understanding of the purpose of these parking spaces exists - and it requires that ground surfaces be "stable, firm, and slip resistant" and it defines the numerous trip hazards that exist at the junctions of the slate slabs.

This wide, curving, pot hole-filled, one-way road that has broken or entirely lacks sidewalks on parts of both sides is designed to encourage speeding drivers and make it dangerous for people walking or using micromobility vehicles. Redesign is desperately needed. Think smooth sidewalks that don’t flood, (contraflow) micromobility lanes, etc. Might be worth limiting car access to residents.

The sidewalk at the northwest corner of the intersection between Edgewood and Pendleton is not ground down, forcing wheelchair users into the street and off the sidewalk while making their way into the park.

across the street from 60 Goffe Terrace.

The City if New Haven very obviously Violated 28 CFR § 35.151 when it repaved Trumbull St. but failed to remediate at least two impassable sections of sidewalk on the North side (and some that are traversable .but exceed the 1/2" "absolute maximum" vertical level change.